Maria Luisa Gambale
Maria Luisa Gambale, a graduate of Harvard University, lives in New York City. In addition to writing, she produces film and media projects and is director of the 2011 film "Sarabah," about the Senegalese rapper-activist Sister Fa. She has produced and directed video for National Geographic, ABC News, The New York Times and Fusion Network. Gambale's work in all media can be viewed at www.veradonnafilms.com.
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • March 10, 2021
Through the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, Beirut was spared the catastrophic caseloads that brought many cities around the world to their knees throughout the spring and early summer of 2020, but the port blast on Aug. 4…
- Categories: Cities, Covid-19, Health and Population
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • May 13, 2019
Wazhma Frogh is a lifetime campaigner for Afghan women and girls. She co-founded the Women and Peace Studies Organization in Afghanistan in 2011 and is a member of the Afghan Women’s Network. In 2009, the United States State Department…
- Categories: Asia, Gender Violence, US Foreign Relations, Women
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • March 25, 2019
Abigail Disney is an American filmmaker and philanthropist who founded Fork Films and Peace Is Loud, an advocacy group. She also founded — with her husband, Pierre Hauser — the Daphne Foundation. Since her 2009 film “Pray the Devil…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Peace and Security, Women
- Maria Luisa Gambale  and Laura E. Kirkpatrick
- • November 20, 2018
Mariam Jalabi, a co-founder of the Syrian Women’s Political Movement and the Syrian National Council’s representative to the United Nations, reflected on Syria’s future in a recent conversation with Jamille Bigio, senior fellow in the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women…
- Categories: Women
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • October 4, 2018
Just days before the United Nations held a meeting with heads of state and foreign ministers on Secretary-General António Guterres’s Action for Peacekeeping initiative, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2436 on peace operations, on Sept. 21. Drafted…
- Categories: Geopolitics, UN Peacekeeping, US Foreign Relations, US-UN Relations
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • June 28, 2018
When Philip Alston decided to focus a report on the United States, in his role as the United Nations special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the goal was to spur a larger discussion. However, in the past…
- Categories: Human Rights, Nikki Haley Watch, Poverty, US-UN Relations
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • July 7, 2017
Nuclear buildup and threat of nuclear war became a front-page item this past week, after Kim Jong Un’s declaration of a successful intercontinental ballistic missile test, confirmed on July 4 by United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Such…
- Categories: Disarmament, Gender Violence, Geopolitics, Nuclear Disarmament
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • May 10, 2016
GENEVA —Â Like approaching a mirage, in early 2016 Syrian women have made significant steps closer to the central negotiating tables of the extremely fragile intra-Syrian peace talks. It’s a process that Syrian women and the United Nations have been…
- Categories: Women
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • August 5, 2015
ROME — Italy is a slender peninsula ringed by 4,722 miles of coastline, a blessing that brings thousands of Italians to the sea each August for Ferragosto, the country’s summer vacation period. The coastline — one of the longest…
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • December 28, 2014
During a trip to Sarajevo in April, my first visit to the city, I was in the middle of Rebecca West’s long, erudite, poetic travel memoir about the Balkans, written in the late 1930s but covering hundreds of years…
- Categories: WORLDVIEWS
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • October 21, 2014
GAZIANTEP, Turkey — Syrian women filled the conference room and lobby of a hotel in this border city for one week in late August this year. They were the focus of a “Space for Collaboration” workshop, providing networking and…
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Women
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • June 30, 2014
ISTANBUL — In 2013, Daniela Kon founded the Social Impact Media Awards to give a boost to a certain kind of documentary film. Documentaries don’t usually make a lot of money. Except for a few lucky theatrical or television…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Poverty, Refugees
- Maria Luisa Gambale
- • April 15, 2014
The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus marked its 50th anniversary in March. The mission, which supervises cease-fire lines and maintains a buffer zone, has involved 32 countries that have contributed troops and police, among whom 184 peacekeepers…
- Categories: Peace and Security, UN Agencies, UN Peacekeeping
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